Thesis--Faculté de theologie de Paris.

Inaug.-dis.--Rostock. / Vita. Also available in print.

Inaug.-diss.--Greifswald. / Lebenslauf. At head of title: Deutsche philologie. "Literatur": p. [7]-9.

Inaug.-diss.--Greifswald. / Lebenslauf. At head of title: Deutsche philologie. "Literatur": p. [7]-9.

Thesis (doctoral)

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 1999. / Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Divinity, University of Glasgow, 1999. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

This study examines the cult of Our Lady of Remedios from an art-historical perspective. Choosing this specific cult statue as a case study is not arbitrary: Remedios is among the oldest Marian images in the New World and was named first patroness of Mexico City in 1574, when the city council became the patron of her shrine and a confraternity was founded to better disseminate the cult. As a result, the statue was carried fifty-seven times through the streets of New Spain's capital in three hundred years (an average of one procession every five years), thus outnumbering any other religious event that was not part of the liturgical calendar. The fame of Our Lady of Remedios was closely linked to her role as Socia Belli of the Spanish army, as she was believed to have protected Hernán Cortés and his allies during the conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlán in 1520-21. Her character as protector in times of war was enhanced in the centuries to come, when she was called to the city on every occasion when the Spanish Crown was involved in military campaigns. Her protection, however, was mainly requested in times of drought and epidemics, a reason for which her fame as protectress of the city grew intensively, and all sectors of society (Spanish, Indians, and Castas) followed her with the same fervent faith. This dissertation is a monographic study of a miraculous image that has hitherto been overlooked in the history of colonial religiosity of New Spain despite its symbolic relevance for the society of its time. It considers the sixteenth-century statue and the ways it was displayed to its devotional audiences as documents that inform us about its social role. By placing this cult image in the ritual context to which it belonged, both spatial and spiritual, this study considers the devotional gaze with which her devotees engaged her showing how devotion, aesthetics and politics were intertwined during colonial Mexico. / History of Art and Architecture

La Sibylle est a la fois une figure mythologique et religieuse, Dans l'Antiquité elle devient également un personnage épique qui figure, par exemple. dans l’Éneide de Virgile. De plus, au Moyen Age, la Sibylle - devenue personnage romanesque apparaît sous forme d'une fée dans la tradition arthurienne. Dans cette these, j'explore - à travers l'analyse des discours sur la Sibylle dans dans Le chemin de longue étude (1402-03) de Christine de Pizan et Le paradis de la Reine Sibylle (1437-8) d'Antoine de la Sale, le repérage des intertextualités aussi bien que les contextualisations historiques et culturelles - l'utilisation littéraire de cette figure religieuse de la Sibylle au XVe` siecle. Le genre expérimental de l'autobiographie des deux textes permet aux écrivains de créer, par l'inclusion (Christine) ou une prise de distance (Antoine) des traditions sibyllines existantes, deux Sibylles nouvelles qui marquent, dans ce contexte littéraire, l'accession au livre de la parole féminine.

Entre 394 et 396 après J-C, saint Augustin d’Hippone forma le projet d’écrire un commentaire de l’Épître aux Romains de saint Paul. Il en rédigea seulement un premier livre, où il commente les sept premiers versets de l’épître, puis examine la question du blasphème impardonnable contre l’Esprit Saint. Nous présentons ici ce texte. Notre thèse comporte d’abord une introduction générale, qui situe l’oeuvre dans son contexte historique et théologique, et discute de sa réception. Puis nous fournissons une édition critique (avec traduction française) du texte : l’édition, sur la base de 25 manuscrits et 5 éditions imprimées, est précédée d’une présentation détaillée de ses sources, d’un stemma justifié, et d’un commentaire des choix ecdotiques. Vient enfin un commentaire détaillé de tout l’ouvrage, qui a pour buts principaux d’éclairer les passages difficiles du texte, de noter ses particularités linguistiques, et d’expliquer sa pensée par référence au corpus augustinien et à la tradition patristique. / Between AD 394 and 396, St. Augustine of Hippo undertook the project of writing a commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. He completed only one book of this, providing a commentary on first seven verses of the epistle, along with an examination of the question of the unforgivable blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. I present this text here. My thesis begins with a general introduction, which situates the work in its historical and theological context, and discusses its reception. I then provide a critical edition (with French translation) of the text: the edition, based on 25 manuscripts and 5 printed editions, is preceded by detailed presentation of sources, a stemma with supporting arguments, and a commentary on editorial decisions. Finally, I provide a detailed commentary on the whole work, whose main aims are to elucidate the text’s difficult passages, to note its linguistic particularities, and to explain its contents with reference to the Augustinian corpus and patristic tradition.